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common at Baddeck and other parts of Cape Breton island, August, 

 1898. (Macoun.) Not observed but undoubtedly occurs on Prince 

 Edward island. Mr. Earle showed me a stuffed specimen. (Dwight.) 

 An occasional summer resident at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) 

 Summer resident but not common ; breeds at Scotch Lake, York 

 county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at Beauport; a common 

 summer resident in Quebec. (Dionne.) Seen from May 27th to 

 August 12th, 1858, in Argenteuil county. Que. (D' Urban.) Sum- 

 mer resident at Montreal; common. Breeds in the city gardens 

 and in Mount Royal park, but their nests are not often found on 

 account of their diminutiveness. On their arrival in Montreal in 

 spring the flowers of the wild gooseberry and lilac bushes are their 

 favourite resorts and later on they frequent horse-chestnut blossoms, 

 wild columbine and cultivated flowers. (Wintle.) 



Common summer resident at Ottawa. (Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) 

 Common summer resident at Toronto, Ont. ; plentiful during migra- 

 tion in Muskoka and Parry Sound districts; at Emsdale, the males 

 arrive soon after the 15th of May, the females a few days later; I 

 think some go further north but a great many remain to breed. (/. 

 H. Fleming.) Not common in Algonquin park, Ont., only three 

 observed from May 25th to June 17th, 1900. (Spreadborough.) 

 Common at Kew beach, Toronto. Several pairs visit my garden 

 every summer and feed on the flowers of the nasturtiums and 

 scarlet-runners. (W. Raine.) This species is a common summer 

 resident around Winnipeg and westward in diminishing numbers. 

 Macoun took it at the head of Lake Winnipegosis, August i6th, 

 1881. (E. T. Seton.) Tolerably common at Aweme, Man., possibly 

 breeding. (Criddle.) Quite a common breeder throughout the 

 settled parts of Manitoba. (Atkinson.) We obtained specimens 

 of this species on the plains of the Saskatchewan, and Mr. Drummond 

 found one of its nests near the source of the Athabaska river. This 

 nest was composed principally of the down of the anemone, bound 

 together with a few stalks of moss and bits of lichen. It ranges 

 in summer as far north as lat. 57° and may go even further. (Rich- 

 ardson.) 



Breeding Notes.— Generally distributed in Ontario ; breeds 

 commonly about the middle of June. One nest I saw was on the 

 outermost branch of a beech ; the eggs were destroyed by black- 



